Monday, February 4, 2008

Another Headline No One Edited

Headlines are condensed versions of standard English. They follow the same rules of usage, agreement, subordination and coordination as the fully expanded version. Some conventions have developed over the years for those times when editors must fit long words into narrow columns. But on a newspaper's Internet site, even monster constructions ("California's Schwarzenegger") have room to breathe. You kids have it soo easy.